Sirojiddin Muhriddin | |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
President: | Emomali Rahmon |
Term Start: | 29 November 2013 |
Predecessor: | Hamrokhon Zarifi |
Office1: | Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations |
Term Start1: | September 2005 |
Term End1: | August 2013 |
Predecessor1: | Rashid Alimov |
Successor1: | Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov |
Birth Name: | Sirodjidin Mukhridinovich Aslov |
Birth Date: | 17 February 1964 |
Birth Place: | Sovetskiy District, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union |
Native Name Lang: | tg |
Sirojiddin Muhriddin, born Sirojiddin Muhriddinovich Aslov (Russian: Сироджиддин Мухриддинович Аслов) is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan since 2013. Muhriddin previously worked as a Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan to the United Nations from 2006 to 2013.
Muhriddin graduated with an engineering degree in 1986 from Odesa Hydro-Meteorological Institute in Ukraine. Muhriddin continued his studies by receiving an additional degree in International Economic Relations from the Tashkent State University of Economics. In the early stages of Muhriddin's career, he had published several research papers based on the Aral Sea. In the early 2000s, he made a transition into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was first appointed as a deputy minister. While being the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was also Chairman of the Executive Committee for Saving the Aral Sea[1] and the National Coordinator for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Affairs. After a year as serving Deputy, Muhriddin was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations as well as the non-resident ambassador to Cuba.[2] After seven years of work within the United Nations he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan in 2013.[3]
He is married, with five children, and speaks Persian, English, Uzbek and Russian.[6]